Songs of My Life #61 - Ronnie James Dio - Love Is All - 1974

Songs of My Life #61 - Ronnie James Dio - Love Is All - 1974

In some down time from Deep Purple, bassist Roger Glover took a shot at writing a story set to music which was going to be animated. The album was released with lots of contemporaries being a part of it, but the animated show never came to pass. Except for this film clip.

Ronnie James Dio was a relative unknown at this stage, still fronting his band called Elf and before becoming a part of Rainbow. And the man can sing (though I am unashamedly biased about anything to do with RJD). All my kids grew up watching and listening to this song, and though they may deny it now, at the time they loved it.

It a world where there is so much evil and killing going on, sometimes you need to reflect on the message of this song, and realise that there is a better way to do this. I still love this song.